Button for gloves.



No. 662,844. Patented Nov. 27, I900.

C. R. WEIDMULLER.

BUTTON FOR GLOVES.

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BUTTON FOR GL'OVES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,8d4, dated November27, 1900. Application filed June 20, 1900. Serial No. 20,989. (No modemTo all whom it map concern.-

Be it known that I, CARL ROBERrWEID- MT'JLLER, a subject of the King ofSaxony and the Emperor of Germany, and a resident of the city ofOhemnitz, Saxony, in the German Empire, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Buttons for Gloves, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to buttons for gloves and the like, such as arecomposed of two separable parts known, respectively, as the socketmember and the stud member, the object of the invention being to producea button of this class provided with improved means for securing bothmembers to the fabric.

With this object in view the invention consists in the improvedconstruction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter fullydescribed and afterward specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are sectional views of thetwo parts composing the socket member. Figs. 3 and 4 are similar viewsof the two parts composing the stud member. Fig. 5 is a sectional viewof the socket member secured to the fabric. Fig. 6 is a similar View ofthe stud member secured to the fabric. Fig. 7 is a similar view of bothmembers secured to the respective fabrics and secured together orfastened. Fig. 8 is a bottom plan view of the socket member, as shown inFig. 5. Fig. 9 is a top plan view of the stud member, as shown in Fig.6.

Like letters of reference mark the same parts in all of the figures ofthe drawings.

Referring to the drawings by letters, a indicates the face of thebutton, made plain or ornamental, as desired, of any suitable materialand secured in any suitable manner to a tubular body or socket 17,provided with an annular exterior groove 0 and an end opening. A curvedwasher h is provided with a central opening and is radially slitted ornotched outward from said central opening to a sufficient depth torender the edges around the central opening elastic. To secure thesocket member to a fabric, as at f, the socket b is passed through ahole in the fabric and the washer h pressed over the end which projectsthrough the fabric until the elastic Walls of the central opening of thewasher snap into the groove 0 of the socket b, which will firmly securethe socket member to the fabric.

2 indicates the stud member, which is provided with an end flange, asshown in Figs. 3, 6, and 9, the main body or socket being provided withtwo annular exterior grooves d and cand being slotted or notchedinwardly from the head end, as at cl, the slots extending inward beyondthe annular groove OZ, but terminating before reaching the annulargroove 6, whereby that portion of the stud in which the groove 6 isformed is rigid and that portion in which the groove d is formed iselastic or compressible.

indicates a curved washer similar in construction to washer h beforedescribed.

To secure the stud member in position, the stud is passed through thefabric g from the inside and the curved washer 7r squeezed down over thestud on the outside of the fabric until the elastic walls of the centralopening of the washer snap into the groove 6, thus firmly securing thestud with its elastic or compressible portion projecting, as shown inFig. 6.

To fasten the button or to button the two fabrics j and 9 together, thesocket b is passed over the projecting end of the stud, compressing thesides of the 'stud inward until the walls of the opening in the head ofthe socket snap into the groove (Z, as shown in Fig. 7.

With the socket and stud members of a button constructed as describedthese parts may be quickly secured to or removed from fabrics and themembers secured together or pulled apart instantly and easily.

Having thus fully described myinvention, What I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A button comprising a socket member composed of a hollow socket orbody proper having an annular groove and an opening in its head, a faceor front secured to the body or socket, and a washer, the walls of theopening of which are radially slitted or notched, thereby rendering saidwalls elastic, said washer being adapted to be pressed over the bodyuntil said elastic walls snap into the annular groove of the body,substantially as described.

2. Abutton comprisingastud member comgroove when the washer is pressedover the posed of ahollow stud with an annular flange end of the hollowstud, substantially as de and two exterior annular grooves, the studscribed. being also slotted inward from the end and In testimony that Iclaim the foregoing as 5 beyond the outer annular groove, rendering myinvention I have signed my name in pres- 15 that portion compressibleand elastic and leavence of two subscribing Witnesses.-

ing that portion in which the inner annular CARL ROBERT WEIDMULLER.groove is formed rigid, and a washer having Witnesses: a central openingWith slitted or notched F. J. DIETZMAN,

1o walls adapted to snap into the inner annular H. THIELE.

